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software developer && graphic designer 🔗 @hiperboreia

[primordial intelligence @primal_brainer]

don’t let a job stop you from reading like ur unemployed

[25 @xervezita]

utilizar cualquier página web de la administración general del estado

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Nissan Cue-X concept (1985)

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

I love looking at old crazy ideas in expired computer patents.

Modern CPU Branch Predictors are invisible. You, as a dev, can’t really see *what* paths the CPU is guessing…it’s all a bunch of AMD/Intel/Apple secret sauce.

For a brief moment in the 80s, there was this wacky proposition of storing the prediction IN the opcodes themselves.

If you don’t understand why that’s insane, bear with me for a second.

Imagine your binary has an ordinary if statement, that compiles down to a jump if equal instruction (JE). You run your program, and let’s say the if statement evaluates as true 99% of the time.

This patent suggested the CPU would then EDIT the running binary, in memory, to a new “JE-probably-taken” instruction, which upon subsequent execution would just assume true.

That might not sound that wild, until you realize the entire structure relies on the branch predictor itself being self modifying code, which you’d then be able to see / evaluate with a debugger! In other words, you’d have a compiled binary, that would then radically change at runtime where you could see all the hints!

The idea ended up not working; a few years later CPU’s started gaining instruction caches, and the round trip back and forth to rewrite the binary in memory would be much too slow. Weird to think about though, to me it feels like it would have been kinda JVM-y / V8ish but at a much much lower level of abstraction.

[Retro Tech Dreams @RetroTechDreams]

Winamp Skin: ASCII amp 5x by mrd00d

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Have you ever stopped to think about how everything used to be created to generate peace of mind and accept those waiting periods?

[bstfrnd @bstfrnd__]

Some of the greatest artwork and ideas are sitting in someone’s portfolio labeled (unused)

[Dotcom📟🌐 @Y2K_DOTCOM]

NVIDIA Bubble Demo (2000)

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

make young people in charge of everything again and i promise things will be better

[sammm ☆ @onlysammms]

no data center is worth destroying this

[Miguel Ángel Durán @midudev]

Los japoneses con ThreeJS están creando páginas web que te vuelan la cabeza:

[nostalgia core @nostalgiacore]

What is stopping tech companies from bringing back these Y2K aesthetics?

[JustAnyone @justanyonee_]

Nobody:
My dad: yo, want this thinkpad? It's in a pile of old laptops im selling for ewaste

So yeah basically now I have a rare 1 out of 250 limited edition thinkpad in fully working condition

[IAMLIUBO @its_hard_2_name]

Holly!I can’t believe this, you can play game boy on Paper S3 now.

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Cover art for “NIGHT CITY” illustrated by Doug Anderson in 1991.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Kandenko Japan Electric Circuit